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Background

The Beginnings

The Iranian Wikimedians User Group is an independent user group consisting of contributors from various Wikimedia projects, with the aim of supporting and promoting Persian content and Iran-related topics on Wikimedia platforms. This group serves as a platform for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and promoting cultural and educational content online among Iranians.

Our user group was officially recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation as evidenced by the Liaison approval in July 2015.

Objectives

1. Promotion of Wikimedia projects and free content in general;
2. Outreach work in schools and universities with Iranian students and through social media to teach Iranians about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects;
3. Edit-a-thons to help Wikimedians to enrich content;
4. Participation in different cultural events such as Nowruz festivals in different countries;
5. Conducting photography contests such as WLM, WLE, and etc.;
6. Support Iranian diaspora contributors to build their community.